Conversing via an eyelid
Last week, we snuck out on a weekday evening to see a deeply moving film - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It got some outstanding reviews from credible sources like this and this. Don't let the fact that its in French and you've got to read the sub-titles deter you - its an incredible tale (true?) of a French fashion magazine editor who is unexpectedly struck by the "locked in syndrome" and is paralyzed from head to toe but with a functioning brain and a working eyelid. And the film is from his perspective of communicating with that one functioning eyelid...
There are a few spellbinding scenes like when the other eyelid is sewn shut to prevent infection and learning to converse by blinking (1 blink for yes and 2 for no).
If you can only see one movie this month, make it this one...you won't regret it.
